03-16-2009
I would focus on trying to simplify your approach, leverage your NIM/TSM server.
1. (HMC) - enable ftp on your NIM server and backup your HMC to your NIM server after each upgrade or major change.
2. (VIOS) - Script a weekly backup from your NIM server of your VIOS servers and save them to your NIM server.
3. (ROOTVG) - Script a weekly backup from your NIM server of your rootvg's on all your LPAR's and save them to your NIM server as well.
Install TSM BA on your NIM server and perform a nightly incremental backup. Make sure you have a off site copy pool setup properly.
LPAR's
1. Install TSM BA client on all your LPAR's and schedule nightly incrementals
2. Exclude any DB2 database directories.
3. You mentioned a TSM API, are you referring to TSM Data Protection for DB2 or just the Backup Archive client?
4. Most importantly
- how much data is in the DB2 database?
- how critical is the data?
- do you have a SLA you need to meet?
In all... utilize the NIM server's functionality to rebuild your rootvg's and VIOS servers. When it comes time to rebuild all you need to do is restore 1 server (NIM) and now someone can focus on rebuilding the VIOS and base OS's. Then you can turn your attention and resources (tape drive mounts) to restoring data to the LPAR's.
We perform hourly backups of our archive logs and nightly exports of our Oracle environment. I also synchronously mirror all my data to a remote location and test our DR plan on a quarterly basis.
Hopefully this makes sense, it's Monday morning and I have St. Patty's Day on my mind!
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backup_delvolset
BACKUP_DELVOLSET(8) AFS Command Reference BACKUP_DELVOLSET(8)
NAME
backup_delvolset - Deletes one or more volume sets from the Backup Database
SYNOPSIS
backup delvolset -name <volume set name>+ [-localauth]
[-cell <cell name>] [-help]
backup delvols -n <volume set name>+ [-l]
[-c <cell name>] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The backup delvolset command deletes each volume set named by the -name argument, and the volume entries each contains, from the Backup
Database. The backup listvolsets command lists the volume sets (and their volume entries) currently defined in the Backup Database.
CAUTIONS
Deleting a temporary volume set is possible only within the interactive session in which it was created. Exiting the interactive session
also destroys the temporary volume set automatically.
OPTIONS
-name <volume set name>+
Names each volume set to delete.
-localauth
Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The backup command interpreter presents it to
the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with the -cell argument. For more
details, see backup(8).
-cell <cell name>
Names the cell in which to run the command. Do not combine this argument with the -localauth flag. For more details, see backup(8).
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.
EXAMPLES
The following command deletes the volume set called user and all volume entries in it:
% backup delvolset user
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running, or must be logged
onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included.
SEE ALSO
backup(8), backup_addvolentry(8), backup_addvolset(8), backup_delvolentry(8), backup_listvolsets(8)
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